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As Donald Trump was hitting his stride at his White House press conference
this week, doing what he does best – denigrating journalists, spreading
falsehoods about his electoral victory, offering science lessons on the
uses of uranium – text messages started pinging on the cellphones of
news anchors sitting in the front row.

“He should do this with a therapist, not on live TV,” one text reportedly said. It came from an interesting source: a Republican US senator.

It is one month into the Trump administration
and all of Washington, most of the United States, and sizable chunks of
the globe are transfixed by the new White House incumbent. While his
supporters remain ecstatic about his entirely unorthodox approach to the
most powerful job on Earth, millions of others – among them, it seems,
Republican senators – are scratching their own heads and wondering how
to understand what is going on inside his. Read more...